Letter: What do our tax dollars pay for in Freetown?

I recently received my excise tax bills for our cars and trailers. These belong to my wife and me, each a car and two trailers. The town of Freetown sent those bills in separate envelopes. Included in the envelopes with the bills was an empty envelope to return the payment.

I recently received my excise tax bills for our cars and trailers. These belong to my wife and me, each a car and two trailers. The town of Freetown sent those bills in separate envelopes. Included in the envelopes with the bills was an empty envelope to return the payment.

What gives? Why couldn’t they have sent the four bills in one envelope, or better yet, one bill that’s itemized in? And why do they need to include an envelope for each bill? And why can’t they withdraw the money directly from the checking account and send the bill via email to those that have email? Am I making too much sense here or am I being overly frugal? You decide.

My uncle used to say, “You take care of the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.”

I’d like to revisit an item I wrote about a month or so ago: Why do the Freetown selectmen have cell phones provided by the town? Do we have access to the numbers of those phones since we bought them and are footing the bill?

Do the police and fire chiefs have one too? They handle all the emergencies. Maybe the highway superintendent should have one also. That way we could call him and get him to finish plowing some of the roads after a snowfall.

It seems the street I live on gets narrowed by as much as six feet after the first substantial snowstorm and the cul-de-sac shrinks by as much as 10 to 12 feet. One more pass is all it would take to keep the street at its original width. Why?